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I've been asked to fold dinosaurs for a wedding bridal shower. I have done enough models to fill the request. However an image that looks like an origami dinosaur was used on the wedding invitations and I was asked to specifically fold some. I've tried to come up with a model and while I can do sections that match bits of the image, I have not been able to make something that will fit together. I've looked in the origami books I have access to and searched on-line.

http://www.kateanddevin.com/index.php

Can someone point me to where this fold is? Or clues as to how to do it? Or alas, tell me that it is an artist's fabrication.

T. Linda Sneed
A medium level folder

I just folded this model from the image.
1. Start with a bird base.
2. Rabbit-ear the two upper corners downwards.
3. Reverse fold these flaps twice to make feet.
4. Reverse fold the right corner upwards.
5. Rabbit-ear this corner to make the head.
6. Pleat the lower-right corner to make arms.
7. Reverse fold the left corner to make the tail.
I hope this helps.

It looks like the Iguanodon on pp. 74-75 of Origami Museum I Animals by Akira Yoshizawa (1987, 1989).

Thank you. I'll give this a try. I don't have that book, but my library might plus now that I have a name, maybe a search will go better.

I did think I had seen this fold but it felt like decades since I had seen it.

Thank you again,
T. Linda Sneed